What is your mission? Ask yourself this. Everyone has a mission, and they might just not realize it.

For most folks, it probably is to pursue happiness, enjoy their life, but most importantly, to come home safely at the end of the day to their family. And to provide for their family, the best a person knows how to. If you do something stupid and avoidable, and end up in a casket, you have failed your mission. Your kids will now grow up without your guidance,love, affection, and financial support. Your wife and all your other friends and family lose as well.

Before you jump on your GSX1000 and decide to go drive 170mph down the highway, ask yourself, "What is your mission?" Are you about to do something stupid, unnecessary, and with great unnecessary risk, that might cause you to fail your mission? THEN DON'T DO IT!!

Are you a hothead, that gets into frequent arguments, perhaps even frequent bar fights or road rage incidents? All of your past incidents may have worked out in your favor. BUT, the next time you might just run into a guy that is a bigger bad ass, or more violent, or more psychopathic, then you are accustomed to. And he kills you, which means you have failed your mission.

What am I rambling about? I recently read a book called Violence of Mind: Training and Preparation for Extreme Violence by Varg Freeborn, published in 2018.

I HONESTLY believe this book has changed my life (for the better). I've read all the top books by all the top experts in violence (Grossman, Bill Jordan, Mas Ayoob, Jeff Cooper,etc) I honestly believe this book is right up there with all of them,and may even surpass them in importance and is likely to become a very discussed, and often recommended book for those that carry a gun, knife, or martial arts skills with them daily.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, I believe this book is of such importance, that I highly recommend that everyone in this board read it. I'm that passionate about it.

I don't know the author or publisher, and have no financial interest in the book. Just a big fan. Check it out.

The old saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks, doesn't apply here. The author presents so many concepts, that I'm sure almost everyone can learn something important, even life changing, from this book. Read the Amazon reviews if you are skeptical.

https://www.amazon.com/Violenc...-ebook/dp/B07BGJFD7L

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I'll check it out.

Thanks

Looks interesting. I ran “Fakespot” on the amazon reviews of the book, it said that the reviews were suspect, FWIW.

https://www.fakespot.com/produ...for-extreme-violence

To find, fix and destroy the enemy through superior maneuver and firepower?

^^^^
Lol first thing to pop into my head was "to seek out, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver".

Very thought provoking. Thanks

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.

Kind of a Peter Gibbons sort of mission.

I just don't want to get hassled.

Very timely. I was just trying to articulate some thoughts about this to a young adult, this helps. Thanks for posting.

My mission? Impossible...

Basically, I just want a Baja Blast.

https://www.amazon.com/Violenc...-ebook/dp/B07BGJFD7L

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I endured more beatings before age 10 than most of you would ever receive in a lifetime...

Ah, a child abuse dick measuring contest. I'll play. Bounced off ceilings, kicked, beaten, stabbed, burned, and thrown through a plate glass window, before 10. That's a requirement to know the "violent mind?"

The guy is either 300 years old or has a little experience in a lot of areas...like many of us. Life's like that. He raises some good points, but the crux of his story is "nobody can tell it like me, nobody's seen the world like I've seen it." It's always more interesting hearing that from someone other than the speaker. Self-sale, and all. Was a bad boy, had a hard upbringing. Welcome to the club.

There's a very old tale told of a master ronin samurai named Miyamoto Musashi, who found himself on a boat with another Samurai. A peasant on the boat dishonored the samurai, who drew his sword to kill the peasant. Musashi offered to take the place of the peasant, but said that the fight shouldn't occur on the boat. Too many people. He pointed to a small island, and the other samurai agreed. The boat put into the island, and the samurai jumped off, and drew his sword.

Musashi pushed the boat off the shore and drifted downstream, leaving the samurai screaming on the island, powerless.

That was a master fighter, and one who truly understood the violent mind. The most powerful is the one who wins without having to fight.

The author prattles on about the "sheepdog" movement, as if there is one, and suggests that one's "mission" is protection of self and family. I see in the news that a shooting took place in a church in Nevada on Sunday, and wonder if the author would have the reader not engage the shooter. Forget sheepdog; someone shooting in a public space is a threat to me and my family, regardless of whether they're aiming at me. Crowded theater, outdoor concert, ATM, mall, church, walmart...it's not about looking out for number one; it's about doing what one must when one must, without the self-aggrandizing and self-promotion.

I get it. Nobody is more bad-ass than the author, and nobody has been there and done that more than him, and all others who post on the topic could never hold a candle to him.

Nobody tried to murder me when I was six, and I didn't work for the mob and a knee breaker. I understand violence really well, however, and I take exception to some of the things the author has to say. My "mission" changes every day. Depends what's going on. Often throughout the day.

The book comes across more to me as a "let me tell you just how tough I really am," affair, more than a treatise on violence or state of mind.

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Cool story bro